| District | Clock starts from | Deadline | Detail and authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| D. Colo.District of ColoradoDistrict guide → | AFTER the §341 meeting | 7 days after the Meeting Date | L.B.R. 3015-1(c)(1). Runs forward from the meeting rather than backward from the hearing. General objections will not be considered and may be stricken, a late objection needs leave with the proposed objection attached as an exhibit, and a creditor disputing a claim or arrearage amount must supply a payment history broken into principal, interest, fees and costs unless it filed its proof of claim first. |
| M.D. Tenn.Middle District of TennesseeDistrict guide → | BEFORE the §341 meeting | 5 calendar days before the meeting of creditors | LBR 3015-1(d). The only district documented here that measures backwards from the §341, and at 5 days rather than 7. An objection may also be raised orally by stating it on the record at the meeting of creditors, so the §341 is a live forum for plan objections. |
| N.D. Tex.Northern District of TexasDistrict guide → | Varies BY DIVISION | 7 days before the hearing, or 21 days after service | Most divisions run a trustee pre-hearing conference with objections due 7 days before. Fort Worth skips the conference and takes objections 21 days after the plan is filed and served. The same district, two different rules, decided by which division the case sits in. |
| W.D. La.Western District of LouisianaDistrict guide → | Before the confirmation hearing | 14 days before the hearing — but not for the trustee | LBR 3015-1(c). Written objections by parties other than the trustee are due at least fourteen days before the scheduled confirmation hearing, and the court may refuse to consider a late one or impose other sanctions. The Chapter 12 and Chapter 13 trustees, by contrast, may file written objections at any time before the confirmation hearing. It is the only district documented here with an explicitly asymmetric deadline, and at 14 days the non-trustee window is twice the usual 7. |
| E.D. Ky.Eastern District of KentuckyDistrict guide → | AFTER the modified plan is filed | 7 days after the filing of a modified plan | LR 3015-3(a). The objection clock on a modified plan runs forward from the modification rather than backward from a hearing. A modification also will not be considered at the confirmation hearing unless filed AND served more than 7 days before it. One carve-out: a creditor holding a domestic support obligation claim under §1325(a)(8) may object at any time before the confirmation order is entered, so a DSO issue cannot be run out on the clock. Confirmation itself may occur earlier than 21 days after the §341. |
| E.D. Tex.Eastern District of TexasDistrict guide → | Before the confirmation hearing | 14 days before the hearing — but not for the trustee | LBR 3015-1(e)(2). Objections by a creditor or party in interest other than the Chapter 13 trustee must be filed no later than fourteen days before the scheduled confirmation hearing, and the rule states that untimely objections MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED by the court. The trustee runs on a separate seven-day track around the hearing. Note also that the notice of the initial §341 meeting carries notice of the initial confirmation hearing, so both dates arrive on one document. |
| D. Md.District of MarylandDistrict guide → | Before the confirmation hearing | 7 days before the hearing | LBR 3015-2(b), with the hearing itself set not less than 35 days after the plan is filed, so the practical window is wider than the 7 days suggests. Objections are served on the trustee, the debtor and the debtor's attorney, and both the debtor and the debtor's attorney must attend the hearing unless excused. |
| D.N.J.District of New JerseyDistrict guide → | Before the confirmation hearing | Not later than 7 days before the hearing | LBR 3015-3, measured against the hearing date set in the Notice of Hearing on Confirmation or the Notice of Modification. Note the trap: the former provision allowing a filed proof of claim to serve as an objection was expressly eliminated, so a creditor relying on that older practice has not objected at all. |
| E.D. Va.Eastern District of VirginiaDistrict guide → | Before the confirmation hearing | Not later than 7 days before the hearing | LBR 3015-2(E)(1). One deadline covers objections to confirmation and to each motion carried inside the plan, being the §506(a) valuation, the §522(f) lien avoidance, and the §365 assumption or rejection. |
| N.D. Ala.Northern District of AlabamaDistrict guide → | Before the confirmation hearing | At least 7 days before the hearing | LR 3015-2(a). Objections should state the grounds with particularity, including any objection to the attorney compensation proposed in the plan. |
| D.P.R.District of Puerto RicoDistrict guide → | Before the confirmation hearing | At least 7 days before the hearing | LBR 3015-3(d)(3)(A), per Rule 3015(f). The objection must set out the facts and legal arguments in sufficient detail for the debtor to reply or amend. Separately, an amended plan filed before the hearing supersedes the prior plan and moots pending objections to it. |
| N.D. & S.D. Miss.Northern & Southern Districts of MississippiDistrict guide → | Announced in Form 309I | As stated in Part 9 of the Notice of Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Case | Rule 3015-1(d) of the Joint Uniform Local Bankruptcy Rules. Rather than fixing a period, the rules point at the court's own case notice: the notice served with the plan must carry the objection deadline as announced in the Notice of Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Case (Official Form 309I), and the rules elsewhere refer to the deadline announced in Part 9 of that notice. The date is read off the 309I in the case rather than calculated from the hearing or the meeting. |
| D. Nev.District of NevadaDistrict guide → | Set by notice and trustee guidelines | Stated in the notice served with the plan | LR 3015(b) and (d). The notice served with the plan states the objection deadline, and each Chapter 13 trustee may publish administration guidelines that themselves set procedures for filing objections to confirmation. So the operative deadline is not a fixed figure in the local rules, and the trustee's current guideline version matters. |
| D. Minn.District of MinnesotaDistrict guide → | Governed by other local rules | Not fixed in the plan rule | LR 3015-1(d) is a form-and-content provision rather than a deadline: for purposes of Rules 3015(f) and (h) and 9014(a), an objection need only comply with LR 9006-1(b) and LR 9013-1(b) and (c). Notably light compared with Colorado, where a general objection can be stricken outright. |
Why the anchor matters more than the number
Seven days before a confirmation hearing and seven days after a §341 meeting are not variations on a theme. They fall on opposite sides of the meeting, so a diary built on one produces a missed deadline under the other. Colorado runs forward from the meeting date. Middle Tennessee runs backward from it, at five days rather than seven, and also permits an oral objection on the record at the meeting itself. Fort Worth, inside a district whose other divisions use the hearing, runs twenty-one days forward from service of the plan. Those are four genuinely different procedural shapes.
Two districts here do not state a figure at all. Nevada puts the deadline in the notice served with the plan and lets each Chapter 13 trustee publish guidelines governing objection procedure, so the operative rule partly lives on the trustee's website. Minnesota's plan rule addresses what an objection must comply with rather than when it is due, pointing to other local rules. Neither is an omission on our part; both are how those districts are built.
What this table is not
It is not complete, and it is deliberately shorter than our plan form reference, which now covers more districts. A district appears here only where we have read its objection rule against the primary source. Where we documented a district's plan form but not its objection deadline, we have left it out rather than inferring the deadline from a neighbouring district, because that inference is exactly the error this page exists to prevent. Rows are added as district research reaches them.
We calendar these for you as part of the case
When we prepare a Chapter 13, the objection window goes in against the right anchor for that district, not a default. $400 per case, or $500 with the plan drafted on the district's form. If your district is not in this table yet, tell us which one it is and we will tell you plainly whether we already know it or need to learn it.
Verified August 2026 against each court's published local rules. Deadlines and the rules that set them change, and two of the districts above deliberately locate the deadline outside the plan rule, so always confirm against the court's own site and, where applicable, the assigned trustee's current guidelines before relying on any row. Corrections are welcome at contact@paralegalbankruptcyservices.com. Services are provided exclusively to licensed attorneys and law firms. We are not a bankruptcy petition preparer and do not provide legal advice or services to the public.